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10 Dec 2016 3:13:44am

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It is conjectured by some paleo-anthropologists that, prior to hominin pair-bonding, the females were only sexually receptive in season. When one became so, the males of the pack would violently compete. There was no protecting or feeding by the males of any particular female or child. Protection against predators and marauders was accorded to the pack in general. Presumably, the male's emotional and moral attachment was to the pack/troop/tribe as a whole.

If this conjecture is valid, then are some of our present day men a "throw back"?